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- American Fractal
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Each portion forming a reduced-size copy of the whole, a fractal is forever fragmented, both chaotic and ordered, endlessly complex. Timothy Green's American Fractal sees this pattern emerge from the fabric of modern culture, as it navigates the personal, the political, and the metaphysical, in a lyric dreamscape in which an eerie chaos lurks just behind the facade of order--where "what looks like / a river...could be a log," "as if accident were / the fundamental attribute of life." In separate poems, one man sells ad space on his forehead, while another examines the multitudes of his own voice on an audio cassette recorder. Each life is but another section of the fractal, the past and the future two mirrors that face each other to perpetuate the illusion of infinites. At turns evocative and sweetly ironic, Green straddles the line between accessibility and complexity, exploring "how the wind whispers our secrets," how "that little tremor" of understanding "touches your sleeve, lets go."
Table of Contents
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- Some Proof
- p. 19
- To Montevideo
- p. 20
- Midnight Mass
- pp. 24-25
- Her Face Once
- pp. 26-27
- The Memory of Water
- p. 28
- Hiking Alone
- pp. 35-36
- Hiking Together
- p. 37
- Beach Scene
- p. 38
- How I’d Explain It
- p. 41
- Playing Our Part
- p. 42
- American Fractal
- pp. 43-47
- Cooking Dinner
- pp. 51-52
- After Hopper
- p. 53
- “High on Hog”
- p. 55
- Microcassette
- pp. 56-57
- Before the Flood
- pp. 60-61
- Beating Balaam’s Ass
- pp. 63-64
- Old Mother Tarantula
- p. 67
- “Man Auctions Ad Space on Forehead”
- pp. 68-69
- The Good Times
- p. 71
- Pluots and Apriums
- pp. 72-73
- Impressionism
- pp. 76-77
- Vigilance: What You’ll Miss
- pp. 81-82
- White Noise
- p. 85
- Applauding the Gods
- pp. 86-87
- Family Tree
- pp. 90-91
- The Space of One Nap
- pp. 92-93
- The Bending of Birches
- pp. 94-96
- In the Parking Lot of Our Dreams
- pp. 100-102
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093798
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091305
MARC Record
OCLC
867795031
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No